Friday, November 11, 2011

11/11/2011
It is quite ironic that the
current administration is running after Gloria, Mike and some former
Commission on Elections (Comelec) officials over massive and
orchestrated fraud in the 2004 elections while Noynoy hasn’t come clean
yet on similar allegations of computerized large-scale cheating to win
the presidency.

The ghost of the 2010 automated fraud returned to
haunt Noynoy the other day after the group called Tanggulang Demokrasya
(TanDem) enumerated clear pieces of evidence that were already raised
in the past but nonetheless remained unresolved until now.

It
cited several violations of the automated election law, including the
Comelec’s decision to disable digital signatures in violation of the
requirement in the law that election returns be transmitted
electronically and digitally to be considered as official election
results and shall be used as the basis for the canvassing of votes and
the proclamation of a candidate..... MORE

11/11/2011
This century began with hopes
of lasting peace as the threat of a nuclear MAD (Mutual Assured
Destruction) came to an end. Only one superpower was left; and in its
hands, the peace that could prosper. But no sooner had the new century
limped through toddlerhood that this lone superpower staged a “false
flag” operation against its own people.

Supposedly to avenge the
three-building 9/11 World Trade Center “terror attacks,” the US pounded
heavily on the medieval nation of Afghanistan in order to flush out the
attacks’ alleged mastermind, Osama bin Laden. But it was too small a
war.

In his 2002 State of the Union Address, then US President
George W. Bush lashed out against the “Axis of Evil,” shattering all
dreams of world peace. The following year, his country attacked another
nation (Iraq) under the pretext of securing Saddam Hussein’s “Weapons of
Mass Destruction” (WMD), which scenario turned out to be a “Weapon of
Mass Distraction.”

Ten years later, and with $1.2 trillion spent,
30,000 civilian casualties (including disproportionate number of
children and women); 20,000 Taliban and 2,700 coalition forces’ deaths
in Afghanistan; 650,000 (according to a Lancet study) to 1.5 million
dead Iraqis; mounting Pakistani civilian drone killings; and an
expansion of the conflicts into Côte d’Ivoire and Libya, now coming to
be known as the new colonial resurgence, there is no end in sight to the
Western powers’ 21st Century wars.

The peoples of the world
should take heed: There is planning for all these wars and more to come.
This was already detailed in the 1990s by US neoconservative think
tank, PNAC (Project for a New American Century), which drafted the plan
“Rebuilding America’s Defenses” that called for a “New Pearl Harbor” to
justify US military resurgence.

The North Atlantic Treaty
Organization (Nato), a military alliance against a bygone Soviet regime,
then shifted its support to US military aggression and went off to
start its own adventures in Côte d’Ivoire and Libya, with current US
President Barack Obama “leading from behind.” The whole of Africa is now
even threatened by the US’ own Africom (Africa Command) as
interventions in Sudan, Somalia, Uganda and Yemen loom.

Even the
much ballyhooed “Arab Spring” was a component of the plan with Arab
Spring NGOs and “civil society” now shown to be funded by the National
Endowment for Democracy and Freedom House, and trained in Serbia’s
CANVAS (Center for Applied Non-Violent Action and Strategies), with
experience in the Balkanization of Serbia.

Now, Egypt is far more
repressive than ever, with sham elections bringing in worse dependency
on the West, as in Tunisia and Libya. Then there’s the US-Israeli thrust
through Syria and then Iran.

The drums of war against Iran have
been beaten for years now. Previous IAEA (International Atomic Energy
Agency) heads, though, from Hans Blix to Mohamed El Baradei, have never
given credence to claims of Iran’s nuclear capability for military use.

But
suddenly, with a new Japanese nuclear watchdog chief who was
aggressively lobbied for by the US, the agency is now producing a
“laptop” of weapons of mass distraction.

The latest came in 2004
when “a mysterious figure handed over to the CIA a laptop he had
purloined from an Iranian technician, purportedly working at a nuclear
plant in Iran. (It was) said to contain pages and pages of top-secret
information in English detailing Iran’s lust for attaining technical
knowhow to produce nuclear payroll for Shahab III missile” — this,
according to Iranian scholar and author Ismael Shalabi on the Center for
Research on Globalization Web site.

Furthermore,
“non-proliferation expert Jeffrey Lewis of the New America Foundation
says the biggest loophole in the claim is the crude manner in which the
laptop documents were constructed… (with reports indicating that) ‘some
of the view graphs were done in Power Point, which suggested to me that
the program was not terribly sophisticated.’ Another fault… is that the
documents were written in English, a language barely used in official
Iranian documents, let alone in documents of such paramount sensitivity.
In 2005, the US officials briefed the IAEA of the contents of the
documents, but they declined to provide the IAEA officials with any
actual documents. In 2008, a battle ensued between IAEA chief Mohamed El
Baradei and George W. Bush… (as El Baradei) thought Iran should be
given a fair chance to see at least some of the invisible documents”
(Inter Press Service, Dec. 9, 2006; New York Times, Dec. 4, 2007). But
the US would not oblige.

According to a cable released by
WikiLeaks in October 2009, “(Yukiya) Amano (current IAEA chief) reminded
(the US) ambassador on several occasions that he would need to make
concessions to the G-77 (the developing countries group), which
correctly required him to be fair-minded and independent, but that he
was solidly in the US court on every key strategic decision, from
high-level personnel appointments to the handling of Iran’s alleged
nuclear weapons program.”

Furthermore, “Amano recently delivered,
reporting that Iran had carried out activities ‘relevant to the
development of a nuclear explosive device’ with ‘evidence’ provided by
‘more than 10 member states as well as its own information’ which turns
out to be the US ‘laptop of WMD.’”

All these remind us of Bush’s
infamous “Sixteen Words” in his 2003 State of the Union speech: “The
British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought
significant quantities of uranium from Africa.”
Those 16 words
were about the Niger “Yellow Cake” Colin Powell said before the UN that
Saddam obtained for his WMDs. After, the CIA sent US Ambassador Joseph
Wilson to Niger to investigate and found the allegation to be false, the
US eventually had to admit that Saddam had no WMDs. It was a barefaced
lie told to 300 million Americans and 6 billion people of the world.

We
have an obligation today to inform our fellow human beings of this new
US lie for war — this “laptop Weapon of Mass Distraction.” We must take
our role seriously as peacemakers and stop the warmongers-for-profit
from destroying more than they already have. A war on Iran will raise
oil to $300 per barrel that would devastate our already suffering
nation.

11/11/2011
It has been one big blunder
after another that Noynoy and his Palace aides have been committing,
giving themselves more problems they themselves create.

The latest
blunder is the way Noynoy and his Injustice Secretary Leila de Lima
have been handling the case involving the travel appeal of Gloria Arroyo
for her medical needs.
If they don’t know it yet, the whole
shebang is boomeranging on them. Not only are they being seen by many
Filipinos as being vindictive, but also that they are being seen as
usurpers of judicial power, making it appear that a Department of
Justice (DoJ) circular is higher than the law and the Constitution.

It
has been noted that while Noynoy and De Lima keep on claiming that
there are pending charges of plunder and electoral sabotage against her
which are all non-bailable crimes, the nation knows that this is not so,
because there have been no charges filed in court at all against Gloria
and even her spouse, Mike Arroyo. What exists are complaints and even
in the case of electoral sabotage, the preliminary investigation on this
has not even been finalized..... MORE

NATO may have ended its operations in Libya, but the Western presence
is far from over, with big companies replacing the warplanes. The
countries that bombed the oil-rich state are now getting lucrative
contracts to rebuild it.

First, British bombs tore it apart. Now, British companies will get
paid to put it back together. Libya is open for business, and UK firms
are being encouraged to join the gold rush.

“Libya is a
relatively wealthy country with oil reserves, and I expect there will be
opportunities for British and, indeed, other companies to get involved
in the reconstruction of Libya,” British Defense Secretary Philip
Hammond has said. He is urging CEOs and sales directors to “pack their
suitcases” and head to the North African country..... MORE

From Freemasons, spiritualists to RPG-fans around the world, this day has something to offer to everyone.

1) First and foremost – the date’s number is a full palindrome (reads
the same from left to right, and right to left), which occurs only once
per century. Nothing crazy about this one, it's just plain math.
Rather, it’s the date’s palindromic qualities that get people stirred
up. Occultists, Freemasons and numerologists each have their own
connotation for the number. Oh, and lotto players often refer to 11 as
“the drumsticks”. The Last time a full double-figure palindrome date
occurred (November 11, 1911), US citizens in Missouri witnessed an
extraordinary temperature drop from 80F to 10 F. Friday will show if it
had anything to do with the date or was mere coincidence.

2)
Russians get married en masse. Registry services in various Russian
towns will be working overtime and setting up additional offices to
cater for all the couples who wish to tie the knot. The other popular
wedding days – like January 1st, or August 28th – are given a run for
their money, as the trend doesn’t stay exclusively Russian. There was
also a funny coincidence concerning divorce: trying to stand out in the
happy crowd, one Russian couple got married on 09/09/09…and got divorced
on 11/11/11!.... MORE

11/11/2011
The 1987 Constitution upholds
the right to travel as inviolable subject only to considerations of
national security, public safety and public health as maybe determined
by competent authorities. International law recognizes this right as
well as provided in Article 12, Section 3 of the Covenant on Civil and
Political Rights which states in part that “...everyone shall be free to
leave any country including his own and return to it...” save only in
“...times of emergency which threatens the life of the nation and the
existence of which is officially proclaimed...” So, what compelling
reason or reasons within the ambit of these “prohibitions” have P-Noy
and his advisers offered thus far to bar former President Gloria Arroyo
from availing of her right to travel? Well, despite their best efforts
we have yet to be shown one..... MORE

11/11/2011
Today, we do the 73rd episode
of what first started as your pet project as mayor of your beloved
city, an early National Heroes Month production, entitled Aawitan Kita
sa Makati: Mga Bayani ng Bayan, at the program’s regular venue at the
University of Makati’s 6th floor auditorium, 5:30 p.m., featuring the
talents of Bimbo Cerrudo, Cris Villonco, Richard Reynoso, Bayang
Barrios, Miguel Castro, Bangge Mabanta, Joel Villaflor and I. The
decision to do an advance show was to accommodate our Middle East
performances in December, but as it falls also on your birthday, how
perfectly right to likewise have it as a tribute to you.

AKSM has
gone a long way since you first put it on stage, in July of 2005, at
around the same time the nation was glued to the revelation of the
“Hello Garci” CDs. It is almost seven years old..... MORE

11/11/2011
The Communist Party of the
Philippines (CPP) has scored the administration of President Aquino for
not filing a single case against former President, Pampanga Rep. Gloria
Arroyo despite so much noise and after more than 500 days in office.

In
a statement, the CPP noted that the Department of Justice’s (DoJ)
denial of Arroyo’s request to travel abroad to seek medical treatment
only opened the possibility that the former President could leave the
country for good and evade criminal proceedings following the filing for
a temporary restraining order before the Supreme Court.

“The more
important issue is that the Aquino regime has wasted its almost 500
days in office in failing to file a single case against Gloria Arroyo
and prosecute her for the high crimes of plunder and electoral fraud as
well as war crimes committed against the Filipino people during her
nine-year rule,” said the CPP..... MORE

President
Aquino’s appointment of Maj. Gen. Emmanuel Bautista as commanding
general of the 86,000-strong Philippine Army has drawn some questions on
how he would lead officers in the field who are mostly his
upperclassmen in the Philippine Military Academy (PMA) where seniority
is “sacred.”

As Army chief, Bautista has supervision of the 10
Infantry Division (ID) commanders throughout the country and all major
support units of the Army such as the Army Support Command (Ascom),
Light Armor Division (LAD) and the Special Operations Command (Socom),
among other units.

At present, all division commanders except one,
6th ID commander Brig. Gen. Rey Ardo, are senior than Bautista, a
member of the PMA Class of 1981 where Ardo also belongs..... MORE

11/11/2011
Vice President Jejomar Binay
will celebrate his birthday today, Nov. 11, 2011 — or “11-11-11” — with
a boodle fight with 1,111 Marine and Navy personnel at the Marines
headquarters in Fort Bonifacio.
Binay is a reservist colonel in the Marines.

The
boodle fight will be followed by the awarding of financial assistance
from the Alay sa Kawal (ASK) Foundation, which Binay chairs, to families
of 69 Marines who were killed in action.

The Vice President said he intends to celebrate his next birthdays with the military..... MORE

11/11/2011
Navotas Rep. Toby Tiangco
yesterday lauded the Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory
Board’s (LTFRB) decision penalizing the bus lines which participated in a
strike on Nov. 15 last year in protest of the Metropolitan Manila
Development Authority (MMDA)’s new number coding scheme implemented on
that same day. The strike resulted in hundreds of commuters stranded
along Edsa.

“It was a fair decision,” said Tiangco on the LTFRB
decision cancelling the franchise of Philippine Corinthian Liner as well
as suspending the licenses of 15 other bus liners that also
participated in the strike..... MORE

11/11/2011
A ranking official of the
Catholic Church has advised lawmakers, who will watch the boxing match
of their colleague, Sarangani Rep. Manny Pacquiao on Sunday (Manila
time), to refrain from using public funds in placing their bets.

Lipa Archbishop Ramon Arguelles said instead of engaging in gambling, solons should just allot their money to help the poor.